Glossary
ActiveX
A component object model (COM) developed by Microsoft for Windows platforms. Allows web browsers to download and execute Windows programs.
API
application programming interface
BMP
Bitmap, a proprietary Microsoft Windows image format.
C++
A general-purpose programming language.
CALS
The CALS Table Model, a standard for representing tables in SGML/XML developed by the CALS Industry Steering Group Electronic Publishing Committee.
CGM
Computer Graphics Metafile, a free and open international standard file format for representing 2–D technical illustrations.
CMS
A content management system, a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content.
conref
Content reference (in DITA)
ContentMap
A pane at the left side of the Syntext Serna application window in the WYSIWYG Mode. It gives you an advantage of viewing the full tree structure of a document.
CSL
ContentMap Style Language
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets, a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language.
CVS
Concurrent Versioning System, a free software revision control system. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers (potentially widely separated in space and/or time) to collaborate.
DITA
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture, a popular XML-based architecture for authoring technical documentation. DITA encourages writing of content as modular topics. Content is devided into small, self-contained topics that can be reused in different deliverables and single-sourced in a variety of ways. DITA topic-oriented approach emphasizes modularity and reuse of topics as concise units of information.
DITA map
DITA maps are documents that collect references to DITA topics to organize them for output to a specific deliverable, including generating navigation files and links to related topics.
You can find more information about DITA Maps at: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/archspec/dita_spec_23_maps.html.
DITA Open Toolkit, DITA OT
DITA Open Toolkit is a Java-based implementation of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee's specification for DITA DTDs and schemas.
DITA topic
DITA topics are the basic units of DITA content. Each topic deals with a single subject.
You can find more information about DITA topics at: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/archspec/topicover.html.
Docbook
from: http://www.docbook.org/whatis:
DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
DOCTYPE
A Document Type Declaration
DTD
Document Type Definition
entity
An entity is a reusable fragment of the document content that can be reused multiple times by reference.
EULA
End user license agreement, a legal contract between the author and the user of software.
external entity
An external entity is saved to a separate file and can be reused in any document.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions.
FOP
Formatting Objects Processor, a Java application that converts XSL-FO files to PDF or other printable formats.
GCA
Graphic Communications Association
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format, an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format
GUI
Graphical User Interface
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
i18n
Internationalization ("i - eighteen letters -n"). translation or localization enablement
internal entity
An internal entity can be reused only in the document in which it was declared.
JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group. An 8-24 bit image file format that is best suited for photographs
MathML
Mathematical Markup Language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations, for desplay and presentation of mathematical equations and fromulas.
MSP
The Maintenance and Support Package for Syntext Serna Enterprise. It enables you to receive priority technical support and provides you with free updates, including major versions, for one year.
Namespace
a method to avoid element name conflicts.
NITF
The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Intelligence Community (IC) suite of standards for the exchange, storage, and transmission of digital-imagery products and image-related products.
OASIS
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards.
PBM
The portable bitmap file format
PDM
Product Data Management
Portable Document Format, a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange.
PGM
The portable graymap file format
PPM
The portable pixmap file format
PI
An XML processing instruction
PNG
Portable Network Graphics, a standard graphics format.
PNM
Portable anymap (PPM, PGM, PBM).
PostScript
A programming language that describes the appearance of a printed page, a page description language developed by Adobe.
Python
An interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics.
redlining
Marking text that has been edited. The redlined text will then appear in a special color so that others can see the changes that have been made.
S1000D
An international specification for technical publications with the focus on content reuse and data integration.
SAPI
Serna application programming interface
SDK
Software Development Kit
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer: cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet, a protocol developed by Netscape.
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML specification and file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. A W3C recommended language for defining graphics in XML.
SVN
Software for revision control that allows teams of authors to work on documentation simultaneously and keep track of changes.
TEI P4
Text Encoding Initiative, a document type
TIF
Tagged Image File Format, is a variable-resolution bitmapped image format developed by Aldus (now part of Adobe) in 1986.
Unicode
Universal Coded Character set, a single standard that supports all the scripts of the world.
URI
a Uniform Resource Identifier, a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource on the Internet.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator, a compact string of characters used to represent a resource available on the Internet, the unique address of any Web document. The term URL is basically synonymous with URI. URI has replaced URL in technical specifications.
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
WebDAV
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers.
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get, describes a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, e.g. a printed document.
XBM
X BitMap, an ASCII text monochrome graphical format.
XPATH
XML Path Language, a query language for selecting nodes from an XML document.
XPM
X Pixmap, an ASCII-text-based image format, which was designed specifically for small icons.
XHTML
eXtensible HyperText Markup Language, a partial merge of XML and HTML standards, reformulation of HTML so that it conforms to the rules of XML.
a document type
XInclude
XInclude is a mechanism that allows you to aggregate several standalone XML documents into your document.
XML
eXtensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C, a standard for exchanging structured documents and data over the Internet .
XML Catalog
A catalog that contains rules specifying how an XML processor should resolve references to entities. Use of a catalog eliminates the need to change URIs within XML documents as resources are moved during development. A document describing a mapping between external entity references and locally-cached equivalents.
XML Schema
An XML Schema prescribes the structure of an XML document type.
XSL
The Extensible Stylesheet Language, a language used to create stylesheets for XML.
XSL-FO
XSL Formatting Objects, a markup language for XML document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs.
XSLT
XSL Transformations, an XML language for transforming XML documents; an XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents into other XML or "human-readable" documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one
XSLT Parameter Set
An XSLT Parameter Set is a set of particular values of the XSLT stylesheet parameters that controls the view of a document in the Editing Window in the WYSIWYG mode of Syntext Serna.